August 31, 2016
West Yorkshire’s Bingley Music Live returns this weekend, Friday to Sunday, September 2nd-4th, with something for everyone:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2nd
Echo & The Bunnymen Bingley Music Live welcomes one of the most iconic eighties new wave acts, Echo & The Bunnymen (QRO live review). Perhaps only Joy Division could rival The Bunnymen in sharp darkness on such seminal albums as Crocodiles (QRO live review), Heaven Up Here (QRO live review), and Ocean Rain (QRO live review). They reunited long before today’s alt-reunion craze, and even if 2014’s Meteorites (QRO review) wasn’t on the same level as the classics, this is a classic act (QRO photos at a festival). |
|
Lightning Seeds Ian Broudie’s Lightning Seeds (QRO photos at a festival) are best known for their U.K. number one hit “Three Lions” in the nineties, but have since broken up, gotten back together, released 2009’s Four Winds, performed with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic & special guests, and more. |
|
Sigala Bruce Fielder has worked more jobs than Homer Simpson, but his best is as electronic DJ/producer Sigala, and singles like 2015 number one song “Easy Love”. |
|
The BML David Bowie Celebration Bingley Music Live celebrates the one, the only, the forever David Bowie. |
|
Also: Imani Williams Alias Kid As Sirens Fall |
|
Discovery Stage Anne-Marie Kloe Espa Rews Vanessa Maria |
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd
Tinie Tempah English rapper Tinie Tempah (QRO photos) had two number one singles in his native U.K. before ever putting out an album, and has since had serious success, including his “Written In the Stars” used as the theme song to WrestleMania XXVII and as the entrance music to the New York Giants before Super Bowl XLVI. He comes to Bingley after last year’s release of Not Letting Go, which gave him his sixth U.K. number one, the most for any rap artist there. |
|
Sigma Drum-and-bass DJ production duo of Cameron Edwards & Joe Lenzie, a.k.a. Sigma, come to Bingley Music Live off of number one singles “Nobody To Love” and “Changing”. |
|
Peter Hook & The Light Five years ago, Peter Hook recruited a new band, The Light, and toured first the U.K. (QRO live review) and then America (QRO live review), performing the two records from his seminal original band, Joy Division, in Unknown Pleasures and Closer. Those two early eighties albums basically defined New Wave, a sound that has more than come back around in today’s acts (think Interpol, think Editors…). They have also always been shadowed by tragedy, in the suicide of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, which brought that seminal band to its end. In 2013, Peter Hook & The Light (QRO photos in a cathedral) toured the first two records from the band that came out of the ashes of Joy Division, and which basically defined electronic dance music in the eighties, New Order, Movement and Power, Corruption & Lies. The shows (QRO live review) included both records, in full – and singles & b-sides (such as the early, post-Division “Ceremony” and “In a Lonely Place”, as well as the breakthrough hits that came between the two albums, “Temptation” and “Blue Monday”). He’s since been touring both Joy & Order, in his native Britain (QRO review) as well as North America (QRO photos in U.S.), including at festivals (QRO photos at a festival), such as Bingley last year. |
|
Barenaked Ladies In the alt-world of Canada, where Rush is the biggest band in the world, another mega-hit is Toronto’s Barenaked Ladies (QRO photos), who’ve also had big-time success south of the border and beyond. “One Week” might as well be the Canadian national anthem, their theme song for The Big Bang Theory has been lauded by everyone up to Stephen Hawking, and they’ve got more catchy songs that you can shake a stick at, touring each summer as if it were ‘The Last Summer On Earth’ (QRO live review). |
|
Also: Bill Ryder-Jones Age of L.U.N.A Jake Isaac Sound of the Sirens Fling |
|
Discovery Stage Ordinary Boys Redfaces Inheaven Kagoule – QRO photos at a festival Slovenlie Brownbear Joe Reacy No Hot Ashes Sam Parkes |
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th
Travis Today’s more comfortable, more emotional Britpop owe a huge debt to Travis (QRO photos). Coldplay’s Chris Martin has even called himself “a poor man’s Fran Healy,” the frontman of the Glasgow group, who have been making accessible, emotional indie music since the nineties. They come to headline Bingley Music Live behind this year’s Everything At Once (QRO review). |
|
All Saints They’ve been up, they’ve been down, they’ve broken up acrimoniously, they’ve reunited, they’ve been signed by major labels, they’ve been dropped by major labels, but All Saints, one of the best-selling U.K. girl groups of all time, come to Bingley Music Live behind this year’s Red Flag. |
|
We Are Scientists The Brooklyn-by-way-of-Claremont, California act (QRO photos in Brooklyn), We Are Scientists (QRO live review) has had a habit of appearing & disappearing (QRO spotlight on), like after hits like “It’s a Hit’ (QRO video) and debut With Love and Squalor (QRO anniversary live review), but returning in 2008 with Brain Thrust Mastery (QRO review), then disappearing again, but came back again, with 2010’s Barbara (QRO review), then away, but back with 2014’s TV en Français (QRO review) & this year’s Helter Seltzer (QRO review), and songs like “Buckle” (QRO video), “Dumb Luck” (QRO video), and “Make It Easy” (QRO review). The band’s powerful indie-rock (QRO photos at a festival) has won PhD’s across the country and beyond (QRO photos at a foreign festival), and their live show (QRO live review) is known for singer/guitarist Keith Murray (QRO interview) & bassist Chris Cain’s humorous between-song banter and audience participation (QRO live review), even at festivals (QRO photos at a festival). |
|
Black Grape Former members of Madchester Happy Mondays & Ruthless Rap Assassins for the electronic sampling bagginess that is Black Grape (QRO live review). |
|
Also: Clean Cut Kid The Jacques Blaenavon – QRO photos Cattle & Cane Pusher |
|
Discovery Stage Hidden Charms Tempesst Passport to Stockholm Glass Mountain Fronteers Broken Witt Rebels Joe Crookall Rupert Stroud Sleepy Jake & The Duvets |
For festival website, go here: http://bingleymusiclive.com/